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I recently had the pleasure of flying out to California to visit a couple of friends and trade in my regular rat race bullshit for a stress-free stay in the mountainous seclusion of some place known only as Loma Rica. Somewhere between eating delicious food and drinking our weight in Absinthe, my friends and I made reservations to secure a...

Formed in 2005 by singer Georgij Makazaric Austria’s Russkaja combines elements of rock, ska and Russian folk music to create a unique sound. Their first single ‘Dope Shit’ was released in 2007 and following the success of their 2008 EP ‘Kasatchok Superstar’, (which went to #20 on the Austrian charts) they attracted the attention of Austria’s Napalm Records, who...

Anthony Cumia continues to have problems.  Anthony was arrested and charged with strangulation, criminal mischief, unlawful imprisonment and assault. Yeah, that is a mouthful of charges. Dani Golightly daughter of The Stress Factory owner Vinnie Brand was the victim of the alleged assault, she posted the aftermath on social media video app Periscopie. Anthony Cumia can be seen in...

You might have caught my review in February of the Gibson Kramer Pacer Classic. It was the one that needed a bit of work to get it up to speed. Not being afraid to put my money where my mouth is, I grabbed a Pacer Vintage last year. "But Darth", you say, "why aren't you loyal to the 80s Kramers?"...

Calling themselves "a group of hard working, beer loving folks who get to bottle our enthusiasm every day," the brewers of Detroit's Atwater Brewery are pumping up their marketing muscle with three new flavors and a new brand identity and labeling program designed to set them even further apart from their competition. "Atwater Brewery. Born in Detroit. Raised Everywhere." The...

Anheuser-Busch announced an agreement to acquire Four Peaks Brewing Company, the leading craft brewer in the state of Arizona. Four Peaks will represent the sixth operation to join the growing list of innovative and progressive craft breweries within The High End, the company's business unit providing unique craft and import brands. "For 20 years we've had more amazing experiences than...

“Rocky, Apollo Creed’s son looks at you and says, ‘family.’ What does that mean to you?” “It means I’m a lucky guy, what can I say.” Creed is a rather formulaic movie, that formula being “Rocky movie.” To be clear, “Rocky movie” is a genre unto itself. It is a dialect within the language of underdog movies within the family...

The new Rail Tail Tremolo is a full contact, dive-only tremolo designed to retrofit your existing Strat®-style 6-point tremolo with no modifications to your guitar; a clever design merging the feel and reliability of a hardtail bridge with the flexibility of a tremolo system. Computer designed and precision-machined, the Rail Tail achieves maximum performance without compromising comfort or feel...

The television show - The Avengers - on January 17, 1968 - Season 6, Episode 6  aired a 51 minute show titled The Positive Negative Man.  Forty-seven years later the band Positive Negative Man unleashes the ten song disc, Broken.   Drummer Ian Wilson (a.k.a. "Mr. Zoom") pounds away with wild abandon on this ambitious project which features very dark tones...

Star Wars fans will be relieved that The Force Awakens is better than 1999’s The Phantom Menace, 2002’s Attack of the Clones and 2005’s Revenge of the Sith, but falls somewhere in-between those stories and 1983’s Return of the Jedi, 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back and, of course, 1977’s Star Wars. 2015 seems a lot longer than the decade from...